The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Fernando Ramón José Galo “Ferdinand” Cestero was born on October 16, 1864 and died on March 15, 1945. He started his literary career working with Quevedo Báez, Mariano Abril, José Gordil, José Negrón Sanjurjo, and others with El Palenque de la Juventud (San Juan), a magazine published from 1886 to 1888. Cestero’s poetic style is known as “criollo poetry” and it is also practiced by poets such as Francisco Manrique Cabrera and Juan Antonio Corretjer. 

Works Consulted

Cestero, Ferdinand R. Poesía Laureadas. San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Rosa-Nieves, Cesareo. La poesía en Puerto Rico. Third edition, Editorial Edil Inc., San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1969.
Cestero, Ferdinand R. “Zoologia lirica”. Revista de la Asociación Femenina de Camagüey, vol. 6, no. 63, Camaguey, Cuba, 1926.